Usability engineering
- J. Nielsen
- Computer ScienceThe Computer Science and Engineering Handbook
- 1997
This guide to the methods of usability engineering provides cost-effective methods that will help developers improve their user interfaces immediately and shows you how to avoid the four most frequently listed reasons for delay in software projects.
Heuristic evaluation
- J. Nielsen
- Business, Psychology
- 3 June 1994
This chapter discusses heuristic evaluation, which Inspection of a prototype or finished system to identify all changes necessary to optimize human performance and preference.
Heuristic evaluation of user interfaces
- J. Nielsen, R. Molich
- Computer ScienceInternational Conference on Human Factors in…
- 1 March 1990
Four experiments showed that individual evaluators were mostly quite bad at doing heuristic evaluations and that they only found between 20 and 51% of the usability problems in the interfaces they evaluated.
Usability inspection methods
- J. Nielsen
- Computer ScienceCHI Conference Companion
- 28 April 1994
Usability inspection is the generic name for a set of costeffective ways of evaluating user interfaces to find usability problems. They are fairly informal methods and easy to use.
Designing Web Usability: The Practice of Simplicity
- J. Nielsen
- Computer Science
- 1 December 1999
Jakob Nielson delivers complete direction on how to connect with any web user, in any situation, with a series of principles that work in support of his findings.
Enhancing the explanatory power of usability heuristics
- J. Nielsen
- Computer ScienceInternational Conference on Human Factors in…
- 24 April 1994
A new set of nine heuristics were derived: visibility of system status, match between system and the real world, user control and freedom, consistency and standards, error prevention, recognition rather than recall, flexibility and efficiency of use, aesthetic and minimalist design, and helping users recognize, diagnose, and recover from errors.
Finding usability problems through heuristic evaluation
- J. Nielsen
- Computer ScienceInternational Conference on Human Factors in…
- 1 June 1992
Usability specialists were better than non-specialists at performing heuristic evaluation, and “double experts” with specific expertise in the kind of interface being evaluated performed even better.…
Designing web usability
- J. Nielsen
- Art, Computer Science
- 30 December 1999
The author concludes that Simplicity in Web Design is the most important quality in web design and that international use and international use should be considered separately.
A mathematical model of the finding of usability problems
- J. Nielsen, T. Landauer
- Computer ScienceINTERCHI
- 1 May 1993
For 11 studies, we find that the detection of usability problems as a function of number of users tested or heuristic evaluators employed is well modeled as a Poisson process. The model can be used…
How to Conduct a Heuristic Evaluation
- J. Nielsen
- Computer Science
- 2006
It is claimed that any problems in getting usability results used more in development are more due to lack of usability of the usability methods and results than they are caused by evil development managers who deliberately want to torment their users.
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